Cognition and Chance - The Psychology of Probabilistic Reasoning

Informationen zum Autor Nickerson, Raymond S. Klappentext This book presents an overview of the necessary information needed to make educational assumptions about the statistical or probable characteristics of a situation. The book can be used as a supplemental text in courses on probability, logic, statistics, judgement and decision making, history, and/or philosophy of science in departments of psychology, philosophy, mathematics, economics, and business. Zusammenfassung This book presents an overview of the necessary information needed to make educational assumptions about the statistical or probable characteristics of a situation. The book can be used as a supplemental text in courses on probability, logic, statistics, Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Foreword. Probability and Chance. Randomness. Coincidences. Inverse Probability. Some Instructive Problems. Paradoxes and Dilemmas. Statistics. Estimation and Prediction. Perception of Covariation. Choice Under Uncertainty. People as Intuitive Probabilists. Concluding Comments.

Product details

• Authors: Raymond S Nickerson, Raymond S. Nickerson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.05.2004
• EAN: 9780805848984
• ISBN: 978-0-8058-4898-4
• No. of pages: 472
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics